Information for Decisions makes this integral part of business communications central to the book. The authors illustrate accounting not as a set of technical procedures to be memorized but as a way of understanding businesses.

Accounting is at the heart of the language of business, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the financial reports. FinancialAccounting: Information for Decisions makes this integral part of business communications central to the book. The authors illustrate accounting not as a set of technical procedures to be memorized but as a way of understanding businesses and a means for evaluating them.

SECTION F1 The Accounting Information System

 F1 Accounting and Organizations

 F2 Information in Organizations

 F3 Accounting Measurement

 F4 Processing Accounting Information

 Module The Database Environment: A Demonstration Case

 F5 Reporting Accounting Information

 F6 Financial Reporting: The Statement of Cash Flows

SECTION F2 Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Accounting Information

 F7 The Time Value of Money

 F8 Financing Activities

 F9 Analysis of Financing Activities

 F10 Investing Activities

 F11 Analysis of Investing Activities

 F12 Operating Activities

 F13 Analysis of Operating Activities

Appendix A Sources of Information about Companies and Industries

Appendix B General Mills, Inc. Annual Report

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